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Hello everyone. Michael here with The Daily Note. Welcome to part 2 of What's New in Android
4.4 for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2. If you missed the first episode, make sure to check
that out first because I pointed out some important updates to multi-window. Today,
let's focus on the changes to the Samsung keyboard, the lock screen, and the lock screen
widgets. So let's check it out. Let's first start by looking at Samsung keyboard.
It has been updated with Galaxy Note 3 style inputs for handwriting. And it works a little
bit differently in the way that if you take out the S Pen when the keyboard is already
showing, it will now switch to the handwriting mode automatically. Before, it would only
show you the handwriting mode if you enabled the keyboard after the S Pen was already out.
Or if you enabled it manually. Continuing on with the Samsung Keyboard, you
will see that it now supports emoji characters. Emoji is more than just emoticons. They have
become adopted as a standard and are considered more like characters on a keyboard. And if
I'm not mistaken, the emoji icons here should be the same for all android devices.
Now here's something interesting. A lot of people have gotten the camera unlock on their
lock screens. You can enable a camera icon that you can swipe on the bottom right corner,
which will open the camera directly from the lockscreen. However, it's missing from my
update completely. Not a big deal since you can add something like the Nexus Camera Widget
which you can download from the Google Play store and add it as a lock screen widget.
And it works just as efficiently, maybe even better.
One change I found is this message here that says swipe screen or say wake-up command to
unlock. That's a new message that I don't really need to see every time. Fortunately,
you can remove it by going to Settings -> My device -> Lock screen -> and uncheck Help
Text. One last thing about things related to the
lockscreen and Android 4.4 is that you get this new music widget. Unlike before where
you had access to a music widget all the time placed from the list of lockscreen widgets
in this list, now you can only see it when the stock music player app is playing music.
When the music is paused it doesn't appear. I guess what they want you to do in this case
is access your notification panel, and hit resume from here. I guess it's not too big
of a deal. I do want to mention that this music lock
screen widget looks very similar to the lockscreen widget found on the Galaxy Note 3, however,
on the note 3, you can actually jump to different parts of the track by long tapping on it.
You can't do this on my Note 2. Maybe that's one for the next update.
One last thing to add to that is that this widget also interacts with other music apps
such as Google Play Music. It uses the same widget which is interesting. I guess this
explains why this lockscreen widget disappears when you're not playing music. It doesn't
know what music app you want to start music with.
So that's it for today. Make sure to tune in to the next part of what's new in Android
4.4 for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2. I'll post that up as soon as possible. In the next day
or two. I'm trying my best to get more videos uploaded more regularly. Anyways, please like,
share, and subscribe. And as always, thank you for watching.